ground forces. It attacked gun emplacements and bridges in the Pas-de-Calais during Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, in June 1944; bombed enemy troops during Operation Cobra, the breakout at Saint Lo, and during the Battle of the Bulge. It bombed military installations near Wesel during Operation Lumberjack, the Allied assault across the Rhine. Its last combat mission was an attack on 25 April 1945 against an armament factory at Pilsen (now Plzeň). Following VE Day in May 1945 the 303d Group was reassigned to the North African Division, Air Transport Command and moved to Casablanca Airfield, French Morocco to use its B-17 bombers as transports, ferrying personnel from France to Morocco. However, the two B-17 groups moved to Casablanca proved surplus to Air Transport Command's needs and the squadron was inactivated in late July 1945 and its planes ferried back to the United States. Strategic Air Command The squadron was again activated in the postwar Strategic Air Command in 1947 at Andrews Field, Maryland, but not Manned or equipped and inactivated in September 1948. It was reactivated in 1951 as a Boeing B-47 Stratojet medium bomber squadron. Its aircraft were not received until April 1953 when squadron received first production block of Boeing B-47E Stratojets. It conducted routine deployments and training during the 1950s and early 1960s. The 360th was inactivated in 1964 with the phaseout of the B-47. Lineage Constituted as the 360th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 28 January 1942 Activated on 3 February 1942 Redesignated 360th Bombardment Squadron, Heavy on 20 August 1943 Inactivated on 25 July 1945 Redesignated 360th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 11 June 1947 Activated on 1 July 1947 Inactivated on 6 September 1948 Redesignated 360th Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 27 August 1951 Activated on 4 September 1951 Inactivated on 15 June 1964 Assignments 303d Bombardment Group, 3 February 1942 – 25 July 1945 303d Bombardment Group, 1 July 1947 – 6 September 1948 303d Bombardment Group, 4 September 1951 303d Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952- 15 June 1964 Stations Pendleton Field, Oregon, 3 February 1942 Gowen Field, Idaho, March 13, 1942 Operated from Muroc Army Air Field, California, May 28 – c. June 14, 1942) Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, June 18, 1942 Biggs Field, Texas, August 7–22, 1942 RAF Molesworth (AAF-107), England, September 12, 1942 Casablanca Airfield, French Morocco, c. May 31 – July 25, 1945 Andrews Field (later Andrews